Art
Skipping Across the Decades with Mark Dagley
Dagley's new exhibition at Spencer Brownstone is a case study in sustaining a varied, disciplined investigation of painting as structure and object-making.
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Books
An Illuminating History of Modern Graphic Design
The Brooklyn-based publishing company, Standards Manual, has produced a series of meticulously crafted facsimiles of design manuals, from the New York City Subway to NASA.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2017
A year of truth-telling and electric painting.
In Brief
Milo Yiannopoulos's Inane Thoughts on Art Slashed in Heavily Edited Book Draft
A first draft of the far-right pundit's unpublished manuscript recently emerged in legal documents, and his editor's dismissive comments are delightful.
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10 Countries Where Art Was Censored in 2017
From a show of queer art shut down in Brazil to a painting removed from an art fair in the United Arab Emirates, cultural censorship was rampant this year.
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Walid Raad's Playful and Dead-Serious Experiments with History
Raad's latest exhibition in Beirut explores history, archives, and reality with his signature inscrutability and dry humor.
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Circling Back to Kenneth Noland
Noland's current exhibition at Yares Art, brings together prime examples of one of the artist’s signature motifs: concentric rings of color centrally and symmetrically ordered in square canvases.
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Birding with Max Ernst
In the Museum of Modern Art's current Ernst retrospective, the artist's avian alter ego, Loplop, reveals a realer reality.
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Mark Bradford Reimagines “Pickett’s Charge” to Include New Voices
Within Bradford's "Pickett's Charge," there is a rawness, a free construction that flies in the face of popular culture's insistence on a simplified historical and visual record.
Books
The Calling Cards of the 1970s and '80s British CB Radio Subculture
Eyeball Cards: The Art of British CB Radio Culture compiles hundreds of calling cards from the renegade 1970s and '80s Citizens Band (CB) radio scene.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: the $10 million reward for solving the Gardner Museum heist was set to expire without eliciting new clues, five works by Hans Hofmann missing for more than a decade were recovered, and a four-story mural of a penis was painted over.
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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2017 Edition
Some people think the art world is a series of champagne lunches, private jet trips, auctions, freeports, and VIP lounges, but that part of the scene doesn’t interest us. Welcome to the latest edition of our annual list compiling those who are rendered powerless in a system created for the affluent